Session Saver can restore browser with same web pages that were open before (this used to be one of the most useful extensions, now it’s part of the browser)

Better RSS integration (2007 will be the Year of RSS now that all major browsers support it in a nice and clean manner)

An amazing built-in spell checker for all forms. Sure, I had the Google toolbar spell check but I never remembered to hit it. Whenever I enter words in a form (including the WP post editor) they are underlined with red if there’s an error. Now all I need is an extension for synchronizing my Firefox dictionary across multiple machines.

Read more to find out the bad.

Bad

Closing tabs now requires clicking on the X in the tab, instead of an X on the right. Of course, you could just get in the habit of using Ctrl-W to close a tab.

Good news: there is a simple config tweak to restore tab functionality to the way it worked in Firefox 1.5. Got to love “old fogey” hacks… expect to see an embedded video of me with a broom yelling “Get off my blog, damn kids!” any minute now.

Fx 2 only: Another tab interface change in Firefox 2 is the addition of a close button on each individual tab. I happen to love this, but some hate it, saying it causes them to accidentally close a tab when just trying to switch to it. If you’re a hater, revert to the Firefox 1.5 behavior by changing the browser.tabs.closeButtons value to 3. This will not display close tabs on individual tabs, and turn on a single close tab at the right end of the tab bar.

Lifehacker has a really nice list of other Firefox config tweaks such as ALWAYS storing sessions when closing the browser (I believe it even keeps form data).

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[…] In addition to my thoughts yesterday //engtech had a take on the fox as well. It is good to see what others think of the new version. I have also removed the close tab X from the individual tabs thanks to the post. Now I have no close tab buttons at all which is great. Why I did this is because tonight on this post when I clicked the tab that this post was in I almost closed it, that would have been bad. Plus I did not like the way they looked in my theme at all, Yuk. […]